How to become a monster of productivity by the method 90/30
Productivity / / December 23, 2019
Thomas Oppong
Entrepreneur, blogger, founder AllTopStartups resource. Included in the list of 100 most influential British entrepreneurs Rise.
You are surrounded by many distractions. Overwhelmed by the project, objectives, tasks, phone calls, emails, and your relatives, friends and colleagues are constantly demanding to give them time. But you can still keep calm in the heart of this chaos. Reduce, simplify and relieve my schedule. Find time to do urgent business, and focus to perform important work.
Michael Altshuler, a motivational speaker and writerThe bad news - the time flies. Good news - you his pilot.
You decide which tasks priority and when they should be performed. The human body works in cycles, which are called ultradian rhythms. During each of these cycles, a peak when we are charged with energy, and time wasting.
People who follow this law work better. It is important to understand the natural rhythms of our body and align them with their periods of activity and rest. Therefore, define personal "peak time" and try to make as much as possible until your energy and willpower does not run out. I call it the 90/30 rule.
During the last three months, I started my day with, that for exactly 90 minutes focused on a very important task, which was supposed to solve. I chose it last night, so as not to waste time in the morning planning. After 90 minutes of hard work, I take a break for 30 minutes. And then this cycle repeated.
And during those 90 minutes, I had time to do more than in any comparable period of time during the rest of the day. I am very pleased with the results.
I decided to adopt this practice, because it found that my energy and capacity for intensive mental work fall throughout the day. And I noticed that some of the challenges that I cowardly save for the evening, and often remain unfulfilled.
Why I took the time period is 90 minutes, not 25 as in any method Pomodoro? Because studiesThe Enchanted World of Sleep specialists from Yale Peretza Lafi show that this is the optimal length of time during which a person is able to effectively focus on a single task.
Tony Schwartz, blogger, writer and founder of The Energy Project, inventedA 90-Minute Plan for Personal Effectiveness Method 90 minutes, based on the results of this particular scientific work.
Tony SchwartzFor nearly 10 years, I start my day with that focus on the most important task that has chosen the night before. After 90 minutes, I make a break. In order not to be distracted, I do not check their email during this period, close all unnecessary windows on my computer and do not come to the phone.
Besides Lafi, Schwartz referred to the work of the researcher Nathan Kleitman sleep. He openedSleep and Wakefulness a phenomenon that is called the basic cycle of recreation activity. Its essence is that within 90 minutes, your brain goes through five stages of sleep, and then rest for 20-30 minutes, then repeats the cycle. Kleitman discovered that this schedule is subject to the body and while awake.
Strictly speaking, in the calculations of the scientist pointed out that to rest enough 20 minutes. However, co-founder Leo Vidrich Buffer service, as well as a writer and literary critic Benjamin Che Kai Wai, check method on itself, foundThe 90/30, 8/10 Rule; The Origin of the 8-Hour Work Day and Why We Should Rethink ItThat 30 minutes break efficiently.
Benjamin Che Kai WaiYou need time to rest, to recover, to allow your body to replenish their energy reserves. 20 minutes is not enough, at least for me. 30 - a more realistic minimum rest period. And yet it facilitates the planning of life, because people are accustomed to thinking stretches for half an hour.
It is due to the method of 90/30 Schwartz wrote his book "The way we work - does not work"Less than six months. Eighteen hours he worked, rested for 30 minutes, then repeat cycle. After he had breakfast first cycle went on after the second run, after the third - dined. And the book was finished ahead of schedule, without overextending haste.
The method is based - force of habit. You must train yourself to solve the most difficult tasks for a day in the first 90 minutes, bringing a daily automatism. Then you do not need a lot of power and pump self-discipline and you will really be able to achieve maximum results.
Productivity can only be achieved purposefully working on this. If every morning you will have a clear goal, to which the execution can proceed immediately, your ability to focus many times will increase. Therefore, spend the last 20 minutes of every day, pondering the problem for tomorrow and prioritizing. And concentrate their energies on achieving their goals, get up as soon as the following morning.
Try it - and be surprised how it is easy and convenient.
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